Very pleased to have been awarded the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Essay Prize for my 2024 Irish Historical Studies article 'The Irish-American press, the Franco-Prussian War and Irish-American identity in the postbellum United States, 1870–71’ doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

The Keough-Naughton Institute, Notre Dame Global, and Miranda House at the University of Delhi brought together an international group of scholars last week for a conference, “India and Ireland: Shared Histories and Interconnected Pasts.”

👉 Read a recap here: irishstudies.nd.edu/news/india-a...

special thanks go to the editorial team at @diplomatichistory.bsky.social, and to the attendees of the @ssnci.bsky.social and @branchuk.bsky.social conferences for their questions and comments when I presented drafts of this paper

The Irish-American press also connected the Cuban war to a partisan rejection of Reconstruction, arguing that Republican policy in the South was a hinderance to the US’ true destiny as the guarantor of republican liberty in the Western hemisphere

The Irish-American press repeatedly criticized the Grant administration for not intervening on behalf of the Cuban rebels and connected this reluctance to earlier examples of American unwillingness to intervene on Ireland’s behalf.

Anti-Colonial Revolution and US Intervention: The Guerra de los Diez Años in Cuba and the Irish American Press, 1868–1878 In 1875, a brutal war had been raging for seven years in Cuba, between the forces of the Spanish regime and nationalist rebels seeking independence. About

Should the US intervene to promote ‘liberty’ in the Western hemisphere? My new article in @diplomatichistory.bsky.social considers Irish Americans as active participants in the debate over whether the US should intervene in the Ten Years War in Cuba (1868-1878)
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It was a fantastic closing roundtable and a fitting end to a wonderful two days. Many thanks to my co-organisers, @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, @tlrhub.bsky.social, and all the speakers, participants, and attendees! The start of a generative conversation that I hope we will continue.

Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.

“New Histories of Irish Art in Modernism: A Conference in Honor of S.B. Kennedy” is underway in Belfast!

▶️ go.nd.edu/kennedy

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Thanks Cian, I'll have to check that article out! IHS @irishhistsoc.bsky.social is a wonderful journal, every edition is a goldmine, so it's a great privilege to be in the journal

Many thanks Kevin for all your support!

This article wouldn’t be possible without the groundbreaking work of scholars of Irish America like @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social, and of German America like Alison Clark Efford and @honeckmischa.bsky.social

Irish Americans made the Franco-Prussian war a cause célèbre - one claimed the ‘Irish people have a quarrel of seven hundred years to fight out with England - now the underhand ally of Prussia’ and ‘should wish success to France, which has always been their friend and the foe of England’

Congrats Cian!

Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellow Robert O’Sullivan on his newest publication!

Huge thanks to @clodaghtait.bsky.social who was a wonderful editor to work with

My article now out in Irish Historical Studies! Explores Irish-American press engagement with the Franco-Prussian War, German Unification and the Paris Commune

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New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

Rituals of Migration Italian and Irish immigrant experiencesWhen people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. The idea of rites of passage—with...

🗃️ What do migrants think, feel, do, and pack on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? See "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147982513... @gihnyu.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social 🧵1/5

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

Congrats to Robert O’Sullivan, currently a postdoctoral research fellow with us @ndirishstudies.bsky.social, on the publication of his latest article. More below…

I had a lot of help writing this article, especially from @johannneem.bsky.social who was an incredibly supportive editor

I assess the symbolic use of the American revolution in Mathew Carey’s Vindiciae Hibernicae, a revisionist history of the Irish rebellion of 1641. Carey repeatedly claims that the claims of the Catholic rebels of 1641 were just as legitimate as those of the American Patriots

My latest article is out in @thejerpano.bsky.social
This is the story of one immigrant, Mathew Carey, and how he grappled with exceptionalist, exclusionary narrative of the American founding, to claim a place for Catholics in the United States.

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Women Prisoners and the Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Irish Civil War* Abstract. In 1921 the international conference of the Red Cross movement passed a resolution expanding its remit to encompass humanitarian intervention in

Now in @enghistrev.bsky.social my article on efforts - led largely by women - to obtain intervention from the ICRC during the Irish civil war. On how republicans navigated international law, the complications posed by women prisoners, and Geneva's lukewarm response.

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Tomorrow at noon, I'm going to be talking about Aiding Ireland at the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy - join for a discussion of giving, politics and power in the nineteenth century. iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Was great to speak at #ACIS2025 and meet and connect with so many scholars I have admired and learned so much from! @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social , @jayroszman.bsky.social bsky.social, @anelisehshrout.bsky.social and many others

Excited to see Embracing Emancipation at #ACIS2025! And learned much from great talks by @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social, @rosulli.bsky.social, and @anelisehshrout.bsky.social, among others.

📣Out now on #firstview!

Robert O’Sullivan (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Irish-American Anti-Imperialism in Patrick Ford’s The Criminal History of the British Empire'

#Ireland #American #USA #Colonialism #Empire 🗃️ 19thc

🔓Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Updated CFP for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution’, a conference to be held @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October 2025.